A Pair of Carved Venetian Giltwood Armchairs

c. 1680

A pair of carved Venetian Baroque giltwood armchairs (Italian, c. 1680) with a tall padded back and square seat upholstered in modern red velvet. The chair backs have a shaped and molded frame carved at the sides with freestanding foliage, the crest-rails are decorated with foliate scrolls at the corners and a mascaron (ornamental mask) surmounted by feathers at center. The molded armrests end in scrolls carved with foliate masks and rest on four-sided columnar supports. The seat rails have a lambrequin apron carved with foliate forms. The chair stands on four tapered paneled legs carved with pendant foliage. The legs are joined by a shaped and molded cruciform stretcher with a raised curling foliate spray at center.

Italian, Venice

gilt pinewod

velvet

63" x 28" x 20"

Gift of Gladys R. Thomas, Cornelia Coudenhove-Kalergi, and Eugene Roberts, 1972.

PSNC.2535.1 - .2